"To call these news organizations 'fake' does tremendous damage and to refer to individual journalists in this way, I have to ask the question: Is this not an incitement for others to attack journalists?" Hussein asked, according to The Post.

"At the time I expressed my feeling that this was grossly irresponsible, because it has consequences, it emboldens those who may think similarly to sharpen their assaults on these communities," Hussein said in Geneva.

"You don't have to stretch the imagination to see, then, what could happen to journalists," Hussein said at the press conference, according to CBS News.